Not at all unlike those who have dozens of DUIs on their driving records and suspended licenses — and keep on driving 'til they kill someone. If they can't enforce traffic laws, how can we expect them to enforce gun safety laws?

"If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he’s not the problem."

Yeah and WTF do they think will happen if the DUI alcohol blood limit is lowered from 0.08% to 0.05% ?? They don't have that many judges or courtrooms , nor jails... the insurance companies will LOVE it !! Your tax $ are with STUPID !!!

Not condoning DUI - it's very serious, but almost halving the limit in one whack is irresponsible and ludicrous!! Hell I could drink 2 beers in 1 hour and hit 0.05% !!! Happy Trails to Happy Hour !!

How about we hold the Judges that let them off accountable !! I can see some skirting the law once or twice and getting off on some technicality, but NOT this many times !! How about making the lawyers and Judges accountable ?

However even if we enforce the laws we have, we have TOO MANY GUNS on the street... it's like giving an alcoholic a case of beer !! Gun violence deaths will go UP not down as the NRA predicts ! All we're going to do is overcrowd the jails we have and cause us to spend mega$$ more building new ones. The USA is already #1 in the incarceration rate ! Gawd- how many more can we throw in the clinker ?

#594999 - 05/16/1307:57 AMRe: Guns, we have to enforce the laws we have first.
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Originally Posted By: steveg

Not at all unlike those who have dozens of DUIs on their driving records and suspended licenses — and keep on driving 'til they kill someone. If they can't enforce traffic laws, how can we expect them to enforce gun safety laws?

Your tax dollar at work on coffee break.

When someone pays by check at my store I am required to get their license number and other info..many times the license will have"non driver" stamped on it....and I watch that person walk out of the store, get into a vehicle and drive off....makes me wonder

I think we should build more jails. Let the states do it cause if federal dollars go into it they'll have to raise taxes and that's impossible. But at the state level it's not a big deal. Just cut more from education--no one has ever proven that classes with 100 kids in them are less effective than ones with 20, after all, and think of the savings on teacher salaries alone! And clearly we need jails more than schools. Americans seem to be much more prone to breaking the law than almost any other people on earth. I'd say it was the result of all those convicts sent over from England in the 18th century, but then how do you explain Australia's generally law-abiding population? Nah--it's the American spirit. One man's law-breaking is another man's constitutional right to do what he wants when he wants where he wants with whomever he wants.

So either lets build more jails so we don't have the joke of people talking their way out of jail terms because the prisons are so crowded. Or lets just follow out the logic of the anti-gun-law folks, who say that there's no point in passing laws because outlaws will just continue to be outlaws. Get rid of all the laws and then no one will be an outlaw and so we won't need jails at all. Bunkers maybe, but not jails.

It's a problem all too familiar to me. One of my closest HS friends — as close and beloved as a sister — was killed by one of these recidivists. A man with 11 DUIs and a revoked DL. He came around a blind curve at nearly 60 mph on a suburban road and hit her car head-on. Of course, he stumbled away with barely a scratch.

That was more than 40 years ago. But every time I hear about a DUI-related fatality, I think of Lynn.

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